Hyderabad: Researchers from IIIT Hyderabad have developed an artificial intelligence software inspired by the Pictionary game to enrich ChatGPT’s creative reasoning skills.
The project, led by Professor Ravikiran Sarvadevabhatla and research scholar Mohammed Hojayifa Khan, takes cues from the popular guessing game where one player draws a sketch and the other interprets it. The team designed a similar turn-taking mechanism, allowing an AI agent to anticipate and analyse a user’s query more creatively.
To build this system, they collected data through more than 20,000 Pictionary sessions across educational institutions and community spaces in Hyderabad, gathering 2.6 lakh handwritten sketches. They then selected 800 participants to play Pictionary with a computer integrated with artificial intelligence, studying the differences in human and machine creative thought.
The result is a “full-duplex” AI agent that can be attached to ChatGPT, enabling it to preemptively grasp questions and deliver more analytical, imaginative responses.
The project was showcased last month at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Nashville, USA, where it received appreciation from students, researchers, and professors.
Professor Ravikiran said the team plans to adapt this software in the future for use in neurology assessments and to support children with autism.
